Appointed
 James
Bequette has accepted an appointment, to begin in January, as
assistant professor of art education. Bequette is finishing a
Ph.D. from Stanford University in curriculum and teacher
education with an arts education emphasis. Bequette brings 15
years of experience as an art teacher in K–12 classrooms and ten
years as an adjunct art instructor at Mendocino College, a
community college in Ukiah, Calif., for which he taught on a
satellite campus serving Round Valley Indian Reservation and
surrounding community. Most recently, Bequette has been a
research assistant at the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching. Bequette’s research interests include
culturally relevant arts education, teacher professional
development, and the role arts education plays in charter
schools.
 Theodore
Christ is a new assistant professor of school psychology. He
holds a Ph.D. in school psychology from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst. Christ comes to the college from the
University of Southern Mississippi, where he has been an
assistant professor of school psychology since 2002. He has been codirector of the Mississippi Reads Project, a partnership with
AmeriCorps-VISTA and the University of Southern Mississippi
since 2003. Christ’s research at the college will focus on
developing and evaluating alternative academic assessments.
 Dante
Cicchetti joins the college as a professor in the Institute of
Child Development. He will have a joint appointment in the
University of Minnesota Medical School’s psychiatry department.
Cicchetti is the world’s leading figure in developmental
psychopathology. He will hold the McKnight Presidential Endowed
Chair and eventually the Harris Endowed Chair. He also will
become director of a major interdisciplinary center involving
collaboration between the University and the city of
Minneapolis. Before joining the college Cicchetti was the
Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and
Pediatrics at the University of Rochester, N.Y. Cicchetti
received a doctorate in clinical psychology and child
development from the University in 1977. At Rochester, Cicchetti
launched four major initiatives that have defined and
established developmental psychopathology. He has received
several awards, including the two highest honors of the
Developmental Division of the American Psychological Association
(APA), the G. Stanley Hall Award and the Urie Bronfenbrenner
Award, to be presented in 2006 for his lifetime contributions to
the science and applications of developmental science. In 2004,
he received the APA Senior Career Award for Distinguished
Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest. Cicchetti
has had far-reaching impact on developmental theory as well as
science, policy, and practice related to child maltreatment,
depression, and mental retardation. “I’m very excited about
coming back to the University of Minnesota where I did my
graduate work,” Cicchetti says. “I look forward to building an
exciting interdisciplinary center to help the University and the
city of Minneapolis.”
 Aaron
Doering has been appointed assistant professor of instructional
systems and technology. Doering received a Ph.D. in curriculum
and instruction/instructional systems and technology from the
University. He has been engaged at the college for the past four
years as a teaching specialist and lecturer. Prior to joining
the college, Doering was on the education technology staff of
the National Geographic Society’s Geography Education Outreach
Program, Washington, D.C., and he was a middle and high school
social studies instructor in Minnesota schools. Doering’s
research focuses on distance learning, specifically adventure
learning, which he brought into classrooms worldwide through
http://polarhusky.com and
the Arctic Transect 2004 expedition, previously featured in
Link. Doering is education director and a team member for the
upcoming adventure learning
expedition, Go North! 2006.
 Benjamin
Jacobs is a new assistant professor of social studies education.
He holds a Ph.D. from Teachers College at Columbia University,
where he has been an instructor and supervisor since 2002.
Jacobs also has been an adjunct instructor at The Steinhardt
School of Education, New York University, and he taught history
for four years to grades eight through 12. His research
interests include history of education, Jewish education, and
education of minority groups.
 Cynthia
Lewis joins the college as professor of English education. She
received a Ph.D. in literacy education from the University of
Iowa, where she has been on the faculty since 1997. She has been
program coordinator of the language, literacy, and culture
doctoral program at the University of Iowa since 2001. Lewis was
an assistant professor at Grinnell College from 1994–97. She was
a reading resource teacher at the West Des Moines Community
Schools, Iowa, from 1989–2002. She has received several awards,
including the Thomas N. Urban Research Award for outstanding
educational research in Iowa, and the Edward B. Fry Book Award,
given annually to a book that advances knowledge about literacy.
Her research interests include social, cultural, and critical
dimensions of literacy; literacy, identity, and discourse;
digital and new-media literacies; and teacher study groups.
 Bic
Ngo has been appointed assistant professor in the
foundations/teacher development program of the Department of
Curriculum and Instruction. Ngo came to the college spring
semester 2005 as a visiting assistant professor. She holds a
Ph.D. in social sciences and policy from the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, where she was a teaching assistant in the
Department of Educational Policy Studies and in the Asian
American studies program. Ngo has been program director for AmeriCorps Teacher Corps, Minnesota Literacy Council, in St.
Paul, and she has worked at the Hmong American Partnership in
St. Paul for three years. Her research interests are social and
cultural contexts of education, refugee/immigrant education, and
urban and multicultural education. Her research has focused on
the educational experiences of Southeast Asian American
students. She has worked extensively with Hmong American and Lao
American students, families, and communities in the Twin Cities
area.
 Arthur
Reynolds has accepted an appointment as professor in the
Institute of Child Development, which he will begin in January
2006. Reynolds holds a Ph.D. in public policy analysis, with
education as primary area, from the University of Illinois at
Chicago. He is a professor of social work, educational
psychology, and human development and family studies, as well as
an investigator at the Waisman Center, at the University of
Wisconsin, Madison, and director of the Chicago Longitudinal
Study, a landmark study begun in 1985. Reynolds has been on the
faculty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, since 1995,
prior to which he was on the faculty at The Pennsylvania State
University. Following his doctoral work, Reynolds held several
research positions in early childhood intervention and
evaluation research, including serving as an affiliate at the
Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale
University. His interests include prevention research and
program evaluation, child development, and children’s social
adjustment and academic success, with a specific focus on family
and school influences on low-income children.
 Keith Russell has joined the college as an associate
professor of recreation and experiential education in the School
of Kinesiology. He holds a Ph.D. in resource recreation and
tourism from the University of Idaho, where he held a variety of
positions, including assistant professor, and taught courses in
economics, human/environment relations, and wilderness
leadership for personal growth and therapy. Russell comes to the
college from the University of New Hampshire, where he has been
an assistant professor and coordinator of the graduate program
in outdoor education in the Department of Kinesiology, as well
as director of the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Research
Cooperative. His research includes the design, implementation,
and evaluation of wilderness programs for youth-at-risk.
 Mistilina Sato is a new assistant professor of teacher
development in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
Sato holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in curriculum and
teacher education, specialty in science education. For the past
two years, she has been a postdoctoral fellow and director of
the National Board Research Project at Stanford University,
where she also has worked as an instructor and teaching
specialist since 1997. For the past six years, Sato has
developed and directed a regional professional development
program for practicing teachers who are pursuing National Board
Certification in the San Francisco Bay area. Sato was a middle
school teacher for five years in Plainsboro, N.J. She has
focused her research on teacher leadership and professional
development.
 Christine Min Wotipka will begin her appointment as assistant
professor in the Department of Educational Policy and
Administration in January. Wotipka received a Ph.D. in
international comparative education from Stanford University.
Prior to joining the college, Wotipka has been an assistant
professor and director of the master’s program in international
comparative education at Stanford University’s School of
Education. She also has been a global fellow/visiting assistant
professor at the International Institute, University of
California, Los Angeles. Her research interests include women in
higher education and international human rights, and she will
teach in the college’s comparative and international development
education program.
 Liang Zhang joins the college as assistant professor of
higher education. Zhang holds a Ph.D. in higher education from
the University of Arizona, and Ph.D. in economics from Cornell
University. Zhang worked for three years in academic
administration and information system management at Tsinghua
University, China, where he received a bachelor’s degree. His
research has examined various economic issues in higher
education.
Promoted
Two faculty in the Department of Educational Psychology have
been promoted: Michael Rodriguez was promoted from assistant
professor to associate professor with tenure, and Kay Herting
Wahl was promoted from assistant to associate professor.
Departmental leadership
Professor Michael Paige began a three-year term as chair of
the Department of Educational Policy and Administration this
fall. Also this fall, Professor Ruth Thomas began a three-year
term as chair of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction.
Professor Mary Jo Kane began as director of the School of
Kinesiology Aug. 29, and Professor Nicki Crick became director
of the Institute of Child Development in January. Michael Wade,
professor and former director of the School of Kinesiology, will
continue as chair of the Department of Work and Human Resource
Education during academic year 2005–06. Professor John Romano
continues as chair of the Department of Educational Psychology.
Professorships and visiting professors
 Anthony Antonio
(left) will be a visiting faculty member in 2005–06
in the Department of Educational Policy and Administration.
Antonio is on the education faculty at Stanford University,
where he is assistant director of the Stanford Institute for
Higher Education Research.
Nicki Crick, professor and director of the Institute of Child
Development, was awarded the Emma Birkmaier Educational
Leadership Professorship for a three-year term which began July
1, 2005. The Birkmaier Professorship also has been awarded to
David R. Johnson, professor and director of the Institute on
Community Integration, for a three-year term beginning July 1,
2006.
The Rodney Wallace Professorship for the Advancement of
Teaching and Learning has been awarded to two professors in the
Department of Educational Policy and Administration: Karen
Seashore began her three-year term July 1, 2005, and David
Chapman will begin his three-year term July 1, 2006.
Pat Harvey, former St. Paul Public Schools superintendent,
has been named a visiting scholar in the college for the 2005–06
academic year, temporarily holding the Carmen Starkson Campbell
Chair in Urban Education. She also will serve as a University
Distinguished Fellow and will be serving in a part-time capacity
with the National Center on Education and the Economy/America’s
Choice in Washington, D.C.
Harvey plans to work with Dean Steven Yussen and the college
to raise the visibility of the college’s urban education
programs and the Campbell Chair. She will serve as co-chair of
the University’s PreK–12 Strategic Planning Task Force with
Geoffrey Maruyama, interim associate vice president for
multicultural affairs, and professor of educational psychology.
A search is continuing to fill the Campbell Chair on a
permanent basis.
Transitions
Patricia Bauer has left her position as professor in the
Institute of Child Development to join the faculty at Duke
University.
Richard Swanson, professor of human resource development and
adult education, retired retroactive to May 30, 2005. Swanson
joined the college in 1979 as associate professor of industrial
education, and became professor of human resource development in
1981.
Swanson received an Ed.D. from the University of Illinois,
and B.A. and M.A. degrees from the College of New Jersey,
Trenton, N.J. During his time at the college, Swanson served as
president of professional organizations, was founding editor of
two publications, and received numerous awards including the
Outstanding Service Award from both the Academy of Human
Resource Development and the National Association of Industrial
and Technical Teacher Educators. In 1995, the American Society
for Training and Development and the Academy of Human Resource
Development established the Richard A. Swanson Research
Excellence Award, to honor an outstanding manuscript in Human
Resource Development Quarterly each year. Swanson was inducted
into the International Adult and Continuing Education Hall of
Fame in 2001, and he was inducted into the Human Resource
Development Scholar Hall of Fame in 2004.
Patricia Thornton is leaving her position as coordinator of
the college’s Teacher Residency Program and New Teacher Project,
both collaborative efforts with the Minneapolis Public Schools,
to be director of summer programs for Concordia Language
Villages.
Honored
Four secondary social studies postbaccalaureate students
received the James A. Mackey Award for Preservice Secondary
Social Studies Teachers: Elizabeth Crask, Darcie DeBoer,
John Merth, and Mallory Wessel.
Ulf Bronas, Ph.D. student in kinesiology, received a
$26,000 predoctoral fellowship award from the Greater Midwest
Affiliate Research Committee of the American Heart Association.
Tiffani Calmes, M.Ed. student in youth development
leadership, and family and consumer sciences teacher at Park
High School, Cottage Grove, Minn., was inducted as chair of the
Preprofessional/Graduate Student Section of the American
Association of Family and Consumer Sciences in June.
Andrew Collins, professor of child development, received the
award for Distinguished Contributions to Education in Child
Development from the Society for Research in Child Development.
Two collegewide communications efforts received second
place (maroon) awards in the University of Minnesota Maroon and
Gold Awards for Communications Excellence in May. The college’s
booth at the Minnesota State Fair received a maroon award in the
campaign/series category for its thematic approach to adventure
learning; and the Web content,
Minnesota—A Great Place to Live, written by Web manager and
editor Kristeen Bullwinkle, received a writing award. Two
communications office members received additional awards:
Nance Longley received the Volunteer of the Year Award, and
Rebecca Noran was on the creative team that won the
People’s Choice/Mike Award for a Goldstein Museum exhibition on
album cover art.
Joan Garfield, professor of educational psychology,
received the American Statistical Association’s 2005 Founders’
Award in August.
Geoffrey Maruyama, professor of educational psychology
and former assistant vice president for multicultural and
academic affairs, started on July 1 as interim associate vice
president of the Office for Multicultural and Academic Affairs.
Maruyama received the Catharine Lealtad Service to Society Award
from Macalester College this spring.
Rosemarie Park, associate professor of adult literacy
education, received the Community Education Recognition Award
from
the St. Paul Public Schools, June 16.
John Romano, professor and chair of the Department of
Educational Psychology, received the inaugural Lifetime
Achievement Award from the prevention section of the Society of
Counseling Psychology at the American Psychological Association
Convention held in Washington, D.C., in August. At the same
convention, Thomas Skovholt, professor of educational
psychology, was awarded the James Cosse Distinguished Award for
Extraordinary Contributions to the Professional Practice of
Counseling Psychology.
Richard Weinberg, professor in the Institute of Child
Development and director of the Center for Early Education and
Development, was honored by the college’s school psychology
program as a distinguished alumnus at its inaugural event for
this honor, Sept. 15.
 Evelyn Deno, professor emerita of special education and alumna of the
Institute of Child Development, died June 4. She was 94. Deno was an
influential leader in special education, and was the first director of
special education for the Minneapolis Public Schools. She received three
degrees from the college, a B.S. in nursery, kindergarten, and primary
in 1948, an M.A. in child development in 1950, and a Ph.D. in child
development in 1958. Deno was born on a farm in Norwalk, Wis., graduated
from high school at age 16, attended LaCrosse Teacher’s College, and
taught nursery and elementary school in Wisconsin and Minneapolis in the
1930s and ’40s. She joined the Minneapolis Public Schools in 1958 as a
consultant of special education and rehabilitation; her title was later
changed to director, during which time she was involved in writing the
first special education law in Minnesota. In 1967, she came back to the
college as a professor of educational psychology and director of the
Psycho educational Clinic, which provided psychological diagnostic
services to school districts. Deno led the development of a new program
to train teachers in special learning disabilities, and remained at the
college until 1975. Her son, Stanley Deno, is a professor of special
education in the college. In addition to Stanley, she is survived by
another son, John Jr., five grandchildren, and seven
great-grandchildren.
 Harold Stevenson, former director of the Institute of Child Development,
died July 8 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 80. Stevenson was an influential
psychologist whose 1992 book, The Learning Gap, coauthored with James
Stigler, showed that reading and math scores of American children were
much lower than their Chinese and Japanese counterparts. Stevenson
received a B.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder,
and received both an M.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford
University. Prior to joining the college, he was on the faculty at
Pomona College; the University of California, Los Angeles; and the
University of Texas, and was a visiting professor at the University of
California, Berkeley, as well as at the Iowa Child Welfare Research
Station, University of Iowa. Stevenson joined the college in 1959 as
professor and third director of the Institute of Child Development
(formerly the Institute of Child Welfare). He left the college in 1971
to join the faculty at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where he
remained until retiring in 2001.
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